Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Truman holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
When Mme. Chideu deposits her money, her banker still sorts the invasion currency into one pile, the old Bank of France currency in another. When the Allies landed, they expected to need huge stocks of new currency, hence brought their own. But in Normandy they found the greater part of the local currency available. From vaults deep within the ruins of the Valognes bank they dug up 100 million francs. With that buried treasure, plus what was in people's socks and hands, the Cherbourg area had a normal amount of normal money in circulation...
...instead of running three to five years, and therefore requiring payment in huge sums, mortgages today go up to easy 25-year terms, comparable to rent...
These are the possibilities, said Slichter. Then he added a huge But. Between the end of war and the fulfillment of full employment stretches a dark valley, a shadowy period of readjustment. Two years after war ends, Government expenditures will have dropped from $90 billion to $25 billion a year-"the greatest and swiftest disappearance of markets in all history...
...flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard either at Karinhall or in Berlin...